Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Bohjalian

As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

Chang-Rae Lee

Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels are about. Sometimes you feel like certain novelists are like that.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

C. S. Forester

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

Catherynne M. Valente

It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor.

Carl Hiaasen

Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.

Sam Shepard

Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that.

Carolyn See

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be human.

Jane Gardam

The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.

Jim Talent

Working with Troop A, we were successful in getting the Senate to approve a plan that would protect our first responders and prevent highway fatalities, ... Dozens of police officers and fire fighters have lost their lives in accidents that should have been avoidable. Our initiative instructs the Department of Transportation to develop model legislation that will increase awareness and help save lives.

W. S. Gilbert

With the lack of institutional knowledge, you could end up with more injuries and catastrophic accidents to some of the employees.

Willie Williams

With the high price of heating this year, we could see more accidents. But I would love to be proved wrong about this.

William Dement

We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip alcohol as a cause of accidents in transportation, particularly on the highway,

Bob Ross

We dont make mistakes. We have happy accidents.

Bob Ross

There are no mistakes, just happy accidents.

Bob Ross

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

Bob Ross

There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.

Billy Ray Cyrus

I don't think there's any accidents in my life.